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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Even without the usual intensity of the past few episodes, this one was quite interesting given the context of the Asakura family and Hao's history. Pacing should pick up again soon. Asakura's family really is something... |
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| I really like how cute the baby spirit of fire looks. |
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| The Great Onmyoji, Hao Asakura, you don't call him the enemy of the Asakura Family for nothing. Hao's pentagram of the laws that master the Feng Shui / Yin Yang elements, he's basically on a whole other level that Yoh couldn't have mustered if he wants to defeat his brother. That's why Yoh cannot drag everyone into a family affair such as this. But more importantly, now that the secret is out, Hao's Spirit of Fire of an Over Soul is seriously no joke that took even the Patch Tribe by surprise. That's even more so for Karim and the others who finally had a chance to learn about Yoh's backstory and how the battle was already set in stone 1000 years back. With Yohmei's divination that led Keiko to birth twin brothers (Hao and Yoh), Hao's which has to be killed to prevent his reincarnation, and they were powerless to stop Hao in his tracks. So the burden is passed onto Yoh, and so sets in motion the fate that Yoh has to suffer to be the Shaman King, their only hope. A dilemma of a family, an eerie but nice episode for context. |
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| Is writing in this version so bad or is it passage of time that makes me root for Hao? How dumb were the lines of Yoh when he complained about Hao toying with people just because he didn't let himself get killed in a match after revealing the medium... Manta is way more annoying that I remembered from the first anime or the manga as well. |
Ii tenki desu ne... |
| Manta really summed things up with"what the fuck why are you fishing suddenly?". |
| This anime keeps getting better and better, just fighting scenes are bad. |
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| Tried to watch at 2.14 speed and it's still surprisingly watchable. |
nkozic_7 said: Wasn't trying to be funny, was trying to make my watching experience as optimized and efficient as possible.CannedMarmalade said: Tried to watch at 2.14 speed and it's still surprisingly watchable. Wow, you tried to be funny? I guess this is too much for today's kids and even older people to handle. |
| Hao was great this episode. That baby scene reminded me that he's always been unstoppable from the start lol not a bad episode |
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| Damn. They sure made Hao extra op, huh? Jesus. Overall, interesting backstory episode although we already knew most of the stuff it covered. Smol Spirit of Fire is so cute tho. |
| Didn't they show this in an earlier ep?? Why wasting eps on this again?? Sure it put something new, but that only means that they shouldn't put this in the earlier ep!! We have static and quick fights that could be improved and they aren't, and we have this talkative eps that are dragged... This is indeed a sh*t studio! They don't know how to manage the time and how to tell the story, and especially how to hook the audience. One of the worse studio performances that I have ever seen! Nice story tho! |
| For the ones that like to bother others (like me) with "you should read the manga/LN", please stop. I don't read mangas, I will NOT read mangas, I will not listen to what manga readers complain in adaptation to the anime counterpart, I only watch anime except in very few and specific situations. |
| That was a really good episode! Hao is so cool damn, but also terrifying. Everyone now knows that Hao is Yoh's brother and also the Great Onmyoji and also the progenitor of the Asakura's. Well that's an expected reaction for Manta, dude is just a regular small man lmao. Also nice that we get a more in-depth look of Hao and Yoh's birth from the first episode. I wonder where their parents are since they're alive. Looking forward to the next episode. |
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TakafumiNaito said: r_justo said: We have static and quick fights that could be improved and they aren't, and we have this talkative eps that are dragged... It is almost like the manga readers have been saying every week that this series is about people talking and not the fights. Only to be ignored because "It's a battle shonen" "the series is literally about a tournament" Yes a tournament in which an average fight has one attack per two chapters of dialogue. Sorry if I'm kinda confused with your statement... Are you saying that it is alright to step up a fight that people was eager to see and literally piss on the fighters life not giving them the deserved lore that they need before dying, but it is okay to waste a full ep where the major part is showing what they already shown in an earlier ep only to show a little more information about it?? I have no problem with talkative eps, I have a problem on lacking of balance. Dragging things that were already shown. If they wanted to make that scene more "complete" with more information this time, I'm ok with it, no stress! But at expense of other scenes that are new and that deserved some more information/action?? DEFINITELY NOT!!! |
| For the ones that like to bother others (like me) with "you should read the manga/LN", please stop. I don't read mangas, I will NOT read mangas, I will not listen to what manga readers complain in adaptation to the anime counterpart, I only watch anime except in very few and specific situations. |
| so Hao is a master of converting elements eh is he an Alchemist lol the mother of Yoh and Hao is pretty |
| this is what i'm waiting for... Good Storytelling with Great OST... This episode was far more better and entertaining than the dragging boring fight episode with the Europe Shaman. |
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| They know about Yoh's connection with Hao now, that backstory for the birth was some great thing |
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| Finally the quite obvious truth revealed. Thou the first half was brutal with how Hao handled things. |
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| Hao being smoother than a smooth criminal. Extension of backstory. Not bad |
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| Hao's Oversoul can absorb other souls and he's also set it up to switch between elemental forms according to the Wu Xing, hence he's undefeatable. If the X-Laws fight with what's flammable, it can burn them as a Spirit of Fire. If they fight fire with fire (burning off all the oxygen with their x-grenade), he can just switch it to being a Spirit of Water. |
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| Okay, kind of like a racap. |
| interesting episode and all, but the 2nd half was interesting even in the firs episode lol. the fact that yoh is the other half of hao is interesting, and makes me wonder how it will play the part in the future of the story. it's mere guess so it's not "spoiler", but my guess is that yoh willingly give hao his "other soul" at some point. oh, and if manta was somehow "useful" in the first part of the anime, now he's just annoying little kid. i want to kick his face. he doesn't even had any interaction with yoh in the past episodes and arcs. he's here just because he's exists . . . |
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